Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-03-18
AFIERTHOUGRTS.

explain many OmlSSlOlS.
AF1ERTHOUGRTS.
Chasing county primary butterfly il
amusing; but how if when caught il
proves to be hornetr This for the
County Committees consideration to-
morrow.
Unless the grounding does something
to retrieve himself in the next few days,
this journal will be forced to award tht
champion belt to the goose bone.
Robert Garrett is the owner of forty
seven pairs OF pantaloons, and therein lies
the secret of the great railroad deal. NJ
man able to own forty-seven pairs ot
pantaloons is going to wear himself -
them out in the service of great corpo-
ration, or anything else that requires work
The Virginia papers do injustice whel
they charge John s. Wise with inconsis-
tencY in saying in his speech at Detroit
that he never saw the day when he though
the National flag belonged to anybody
else but me-" His charge in the battls
of New Market to capture it was writ
of replevin.
The fact Of the existence of the Hon
John s. Barbour seems to be more gener-
ally known among the Headers" this
Spring than it was in the winter of 1885 6
In this day. Young Mems Christian
Association building in town is as much
q mark of advanced civilization as street
railroad or an electric light.
When John W. Daniel refused to vote
for the resolutions complimentary &c
Speaker Carlisle. he truly represented
Virginia interests and made many friends
worth the having.
A suggestion to Gov. Lee; Put at least
one Republican, prominent one whose
standing is a guarantee-on each Board
of the Charitable and Educational insti-
buttons of the state. 1t will prove its
wisdom in time.
DISSERTATIONS OF A RETIRLJ
VETERAN.
ne impresses me more with the
one-sided way people Iack sbthings. than
the articles I read now and then about Old
Maids. They are either drawn as sour
sharp-angled, shrewish women. the sweet.
ness of whose natures has been neutral
lied by the acid Of disappointment, or de-
picted as sweet-natured, long-suffering
women, who are too good for this world and
are only awaiting translation. [ would
like to touch out little of both pictures
and paint in better one of my own-a
work in which / shall gain the good viii
of neither artist, and the ill-Wlll of tbs
subject of the portrait herself. In the first
as it is offensive. Il is not at all important
that woman should be old to be an ole
maid. l have seen as confirmed old maids
at sixteen as 1 ever saw at sixty. The
stigmatIc name is, to be accurate. applied
more to the mind of the maid than to the
maid herself. There are mental traits
which have come to be accepted as old
maldish and which are even applied tt
eccentric persons of the opposite sex. L
Is mistake also, 30 make ugliness an(
1u1AACo6 dbUklUuGC0 VI OH OlO AldlOs
that have met were as fine looking ane
as well moulded women as there are in any
other condition Of life. 1t is not, how
ever, equally an error to attribute prudery
to them; but observation shows that it il
an accompaniment of years in all con
ditions of life. IL is not any peculiari5
high standard of primness that gives elder
~ people prudery; it is rather sense thai
the other course is loss of dignity. No
is this sense confined to elderly single la
dies, for it is shared by their more fortu-
nate, or unfortunate. married sisters as
well. 1 am sometimes recalled tt
myself by a faint blush Of rem on
STRANGE from that estimable woman
Mrs. Boyzy. when ia company
have yielded in an unguarded moment tt
an indulgence in those aEectionate marks
of esteem for which the world has decided
youth alone is an excuse. I take it thai
after single woman arrives at certain
age dreadful phFase) she comes to the
conclusion that the little freedoms anG
familiarities of youth no more become
her than would hoop-rolling become nsag
of the same age, and she sets to work ad
iusting herself to the new habit. The
trouble with her. and with all of as. is
that we get an idea that What becomes US
must look well on others, and so she sets tC
work to 1T her new habit on younger
people. She is resisted vigorously. She
coraaa ont of tha hattie sometimes vic
sorious, sometimes defeated. but alw&yi
branded by the enemy as an 'old maid
often intensified to hateful OLD
maid Now. that woman has in this done
nothing characteristic Of ner class any
more than of oGher women. 4 married
woman at her age, endowed with some
sensibility in such matters, thin ks precise.